I keep wondering why common sense is so uncommon or rare. How did homo sapiens become so brainmucked? We call our national, world, state, county, city etc. organizations “governments” and then wonder why we get what we got. Do we not know that govern means control or rule over the rest of us? When we talk government this and that, aren’t we asking someone else to take away our freedom and responsibility? A common saying is Freedom is not Free. I think this commonly implies we have to fight for Freedom. IMO, this should be apparent to anyone to mean, that to be Free, one must take equal responsibility for one’s own actions. The blame game gives your power and freedom away to others. Too few want to take responsibility for their situation.

I think our national constitution describes a Serverment rather than a Government. That is, elected officials are meant to serve, facilitate, coordinate actions that provides everyone the opportunity for Justice, Domestic Tranquility, Blessings of Liberty, and Common Defence. That is not happening because we are asking to be controlled or ruled rather than served by using the word “government” instead “serverment” for our national organization. Words have unconscious meanings as well as conscious meanings or applications.

Saturday, March 12, 2011 Serverments instead of Governments In order to change the world, we must change its ideologies. We must change the way it thinks. We ought to realize that governments govern, and as long as they govern they will limit human rights in favor of political power. If the world wants a true form of freedom of the people, then governments should serve. Governments should become Serverments. Posted by Nolan A. Cary at 9:44 AM

Friday, November 12, 2010 A New Generation of Politics The vision of the 20th century lead the U.S. to dominant power, but created a vacuum that requires the U.S. to adopt a new approach to politics. The Cold War ended, but only served to prove that communism was not able to win. It did not prove that capitalism was the pinnacle of human achievement. That point of view was basically a baby boomer’s perspective. The new generation of politics needs a new generation of leaders. The baby boomers cannot grasp the fact that times have changed. Generation X must now stand up and take command of the helm. Generation Y should also be ready to take action.

Generation X and Y understand that the biggest issues confronting the = U.S. are environmental issues and the rights of people over corporations = and special interests. Most Generation X and Y are more open to people = of all races and origins whereas the Baby Boomers are most offended by = other races and cultures. Most of the New Generation has a more rational = view of issues like same sex marriage and abortion, but the Baby Boomers = are still polarized. Most of the New Generation is not concerned about = socialism versus capitalism.

In short, new generation of politics equals new generation of leaders. = The Baby Boomers need to step down and stop trying to lead Generation X. Posted by Nolan A. Cary at 2:34 PM =20 Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook=20

=20 Saturday, March 12, 2011 Commentary on the Spirit of the Founding Documents of the United States=20 I think the spirit of the Founding Documents of the United States of = America intended to unite the newly formed nation into a bond of mutual = security and benefit. It also intended to ensure the freedoms and rights = of the people of that nation against oppression from external enemies or = internal enemies.=20

The Constitution was a compromise of principles, and it was designed to = reflect a newly formed government. It made the best of certain realities = which were inhumane, like the issue of slavery and the fact that only = male land owners were allowed to vote. It was never, in my belief, = intended to be the last word on government.

If the Constitution is examined, then it will be noted that it has been = modified several times to keep up with the times. However, the great = achievement of that document was in the three branches of government = which helped to ensure a balance of power, because that was the chief = fear of the time it was written: That an oligarchy would take control if = reasonable means did not prevent it.

Now the three branches of government can no longer accomplish that act, = because over time political strategist and parties have devised means to = circumvent the three branch solution. The Constitution of the United = States of America is an outdated document that needs to be completely = overhauled for the future integrity of the United States of America. = This is the real issue at the heart of all political debates at this = time and in the near future, but people need to recognize it and make = the change. The power is in the hands of the people, and the new = generation of voters and soon to be voters need to take up the cause.=20 =20 Saturday, March 12, 2011 Trade Policy=20 Trade policy must be congruent with environmental policy. Generally, = trade policy is debated in a vacuum which only considers economic = matters, but the shift towards more sustainable designs in energy and = efficiency must also be set in trade policy.=20

The GDP and amount of products exported versus imported have been = largely debated since the Revolutionary War, but they ignore more in = those debates than they include. In fact, trade policy must revolve = around self sufficiency rather importing and exporting. Trade policy = must shift to a sustainable trade policy that will support local and = regional economies and ecosystems.=20

Trade policy must integrate reduced emissions into policies on exporting = and importing. If a region can produce a product and use that product, = then it should do that instead of exporting their product and then = importing a similar product to use. Trade policy should reduce shipping = distances rather than increase them, because it will be more energy = efficient and support the local and regional economies. Importing and = exporting should be frugal activities in trade rather than the basis of = trade.=20 Posted by Nolan A. Cary at 9:36 AM =20 =20 Friday, March 4, 2011 Ten Boondoggles Strangling America to Death=20 According to Webster’s Dictionary, a boondoggle means a project funded = by the federal government out of political favoritism that is of no real = value to the community or nation.

All ten of those boondoggles allow the very wealthy to consolidate their = power over the people. A hand full of political families, like the Bush = Family and the Clinton Family, and big business tycoons are slowly = strangling the United States of America to death. Posted by Nolan A. Cary at 11:57 AM =20 Wednesday, September 28, 2011 The Big Political Questions and Answers are both Philosophical and = Practical=20 The big political questions that must be answered in America concern = where we are heading. I don’t know all the answers, but I know a few, = and maybe some other people can put forth some ideas. I think that is = how we need to approach the future as well as the present state of = affairs.

Here’s my view: I’m a 38 year old male in good physical health, I’m intelligent, I read, = study and apply myself at work and on other projects. I believe in = private enterprise, but I do not agree with unrestrained free markets. I = believe in living sustainable and preserving the environment. I believe = in corporate responsibility to both people and the environment. I = believe in a fair taxation system but I do not agree with corporations = as people or as entities that should get special privileges above common = people. I dislike corporate greed as much as I dislike it in individual = people.

I dislike the notion that the main argument of our time is about = capitalism and government. The fight between socialism and capitalism = only proved that both systems can wreck a political state and degrade = the environment. Neither system has brought unending health and = prosperity to the masses. If they have, then I missed out on my share = and I want it now.

I dislike the notion that a bunch of talk show hosts, political = analysts, corporate executives, or politicians can really understand what the average person faces on a day to day basis. I also dislike the notion that some good old buddy or uneducated hick who has bought the propaganda can truly understand the plight of the average. I dislike the notion that the Palin’s, the Perry’s, the Bush’s, the Clinton’s, the Obama’s, and all the rest of those types can grasp the common person who happens to be fairly well read and schooled.

I also dislike the notion that some old man like Ron Paul or his son will solve all problems by just offering up more freedom and anti-regulation talk. Freedom is good, but restraint is sometimes necessary.

What do we want to be and what future do we want? Do you want to live in = a world that has been destroyed by over development, pollution, and greed? Do you really want to keep polluting airways, waterways, and the ground we walk upon? Are you really willing to accept with indifference whatever the top earners tell us?

Can I get you to see that our economic condition is a result of our waste and avarice or will you simply reject common sense and what your eyes tell you? Will you stand with me and reject the right, the left, and the false center? Will you open the door to a better future that combines cutting edge, resource and energy efficient technologies with = ambitious goals to improve people’s lives? Or will you continue in the mold of your mother and father and their mother and father? Will you allow the top earners who are few in number to continue their oppressive rule?

I can’t answer all the questions for you. I’m not a Rush Limbaugh who thinks he knows everything. I only know what I know. I know Rush does not have a clue what the average person faces. I can look him in the eyes and know that. He is part of the problem. He rants but it does not improve my work conditions, my pay, my living conditions, my environment. He never helps me. He is overweight, and I am fit. How can I respect him? Maybe he has more money, but his money never helps me. He talks and that’s all he does. Can I get you to see his words are poison to the average person? He takes but he does not deliver.

Chris Matthews is a favorite of mine, but I disagree with him many times. Please listen to me Chris, stop saying build more roads. We have enough. Have you seen all the roads? They are everywhere and cars clog them. We need rails. More rails. Commuter rails, high speed rails, maglev rails.

Dylan Ratigan speaks much truth about the economy, but he is sadly mistaken on some fronts. Get on board with renewable energy and reject all fossil fuels. Get on board with rails. Help us recycle. Trash is waste and aren’t you tired of waste. Sustainability or green living is about reducing waste. If we reduce natural resource waste, then the economic waste attached to it will follow. Dylan, please do the math. I know you have it in you. Follow the true resource efficiency trade model. That is the key you are looking for.

I have more to say to both the average person and specific people, but now I will listen to you. What do you think? What will you do? Posted by Nolan A. Cary at 3:25 PM

Saturday, March 12, 2011 The Ways of Governing

The government exists to govern the people and the resources of the people. It provides infrastructure, order and security for the people. If the government fails to govern the people, then the people will be incited to rebellion. If the government succeeds, then the people will remain pacified.

Most just and prosperous governments employ a combination of all three means, but will lean most towards increased freedoms and rights and annexation. Territorial conquest and reduced freedoms and rights are oppressive measures and should only be used sparingly.

A government that pacifies the people by directing discontent through = territorial conquest will become imperialistic and oppress external people. A government that expands via annexation will be in accord with the people both internally and externally, because they both agree to terms for mutual benefit.

A government that expands freedoms and rights will gravitate towards a = more natural form of government that is neither oppressive nor = intrusive. A government that restricts rights and freedoms will = gravitate towards a police type state.

All police states have these common attributes: 1) Polarized politics. 2) Sealing off boarders. 3) Restrictions on travel. 4) Torture and intense interrogations. 5) Confining people without proof of guilt or charging them with crimes. 6) Profiling and singling out certain groups of people. 7) Eaves dropping and spying on citizens. 8) Accumulation of wealth and power in a small group of peoples’ hands. 9) Corrupt politicians and political policies.

Both imperialism and police states are similar in nature, and they are often used together to expand outwardly while oppressing inwardly. These states are doomed to failure though, because the people internally will not always concede and will ultimately rise up. The people externally affected will not be completely subdued, so that between these two circumstances a state must eventually meet failure.

An imperialistic state will maintain itself for a long time if it has advantages which its enemies cannot overcome, but it must also meet failure when it reaches a point of overextension. All governments that = expand by conquest have a natural geographic limit which cannot be exceeded without peril. Once this overextension occurs, a government must change its method of governing or it will end in disaster. The worst policy is to become a police state, because the people in an imperialistic state have generally enjoyed the fruits of conquest and they are unaccustomed to oppressive measures.

The best policy for an imperialistic state is to adopt a method of annexation and increased freedoms and rights. The annexed will benefit from the size and general well being of the imperialistic state. The people internally will benefit by a buffer from growing external enemies. The extension of rights and freedoms will ensure prosperity and keep the people pacified and willing to improve infrastructure. Posted by Nolan A. Cary at 9:31 AM

Reading a copy of the interview with Prof. Michael Hudson, I am reminded of few things I learned in college:

A specialist is one that knows more and more about less and less.

An expert is an X as we all know in algebra stands for an unknown quantity and spirt is squirt under pressure.

Bachelor of Science degree is BS which everyone know what that commonly stands for.

Master of Science degree is MS which is More of the Same.

Doctor of Philosophy is PhD which is Piled Highter and Deeper.

Now that I got that much off my chest, I have to say that much of the discussion among professionals about our economic problems seem to me like flighty birds twittering and babbling about and among the twigs and leaves of the problem instead digging into the very root or roots of the economic problem.

I am not a professional economist, thankfully.

I am a retired professional agriculturalist, unthankfully, as I am well aware from the very beginning of the coming poisonous deadend of industrial corporate agricullture as being led by our professional agri;culturists. That awareness probably was reinforced by my being born and growing up during the depression on midwestern farms.

I have known and fully recognized where I think our basic financial problem lay for many decades, but could see no way to correct it or even anybody else even recognizing there was a problem to solve during that time. Why I would happen to begin wondering again about the problem about two weeks before the OWS broke out is beyond me since I had no inkling OWS was afoot.

Amazingly, at that time, in reading my emails I get from various mailing lists to keep abreast of events and ideas, I read an article written by Dick Eastman about Social Credit which sounded like the very answer I was looking for. In researching the internet, I was thrilled to find lots of information that fulfilled my hopes. However, IMO, most writers seemed to me to make Social Credit more complicated then necessary. No wonder it hasn’t been accepted and put into practise anywhere yet or supported by the majority exposed to the idea.

What is the problem that I have been aware for so long? That is the Federal Reserve Bank and fractional reserve banking system. Money has to be intoduced into circulation somehow. If spent into circulation, the first spender gets the face value of the money without having earned its value but the spender agrees with receiver of the money that the receiver has earned that value. Thereafter the receiver becomes the spender of the money he has earned, and next receiver agrees on the mutual exchange, and this can go on and on, forever and ever with the same money.

However, the banks as the only wrangled legalized creators of money as a monopoly are very tricky. The banks loan the money into circulation. The free handout to the banks is not obvious because the return is delayed while the money circulates its benefits. However the results are exactly the same as if the money had been spent into circulation. The banks get the face value of the money without having earned it. If only banks can issue money who are owned by one tenth of one percent of the people, that means that the 99.99% of people must borrow from them in order to carry on our interdependent life and survive.

Not only that, but the banks add interest on the face value of the loan which in reality has zero principle as bankers have no earned credit to loan since the principle was drawn from thin air. Furthermore, since the money originates as a loan, its circulation is limited and sucking in interest while circulating. This is the interest drain and usury that Dick Eastman talks about. As the face value of the money and interest is sucked back in, more money must be borrowed to pay the interest since the only money circulating was the face value just now sucked back in.

Now money sucked back in is not dead, for the banks use our money that we the 99.99%ers earned and had to pay back and the banks and their 0.1%ers did not earn and use it to buy out our constitution, our traitorous representatives, our traitorous judicial system, and anything else that strikes their fancy.

What can Social Credit do? Since money has to origin somewhere, and the originator gets to benefit from converting the money from unearned face value to earned face value as explained above, it is only fair that every citizen adult gets an equal share rather than just a select few, the 0.1%ers. That way, with such a broadly distributed exchange power, the booms and busts are not as likely to happen as they average out like proper insurance does, and every adult and his children have an equal opportunity to learn from the choices they make and also to observe the choices and results many others are getting.

So we may be pleasantly shocked seeing for the first time the human potential manifesting in general. Try it, we might like it. May the Golden Rule come alive. “Do unto others as they would like you to do unto them as you would like them to do unto you as you would like them to do unto you” or leave others alone if that is what others really want.

I have tried to make sense of our interdependent economic challenge and hope this might make some sense to you.

“It was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind[9]

“And so these men of Hindustan Disputed loud and long, Each in his own opinion Exceeding stiff and strong, Though each was partly in the right And all were in the wrong.”

To me this is our world situation today, sad to say, although we are not blind and need only to open our eyes and thus our minds. When are we going to start listening to each other in order to better understand the world in which we live? Over 50 years ago in my late 20s age, I wrote about my deep concern when Sputnik went up. (Included in this blog as “Part I THIS ONE WONDERFUL WORLD AND OUR ESSENTIAL AWARENESS“. I felt that humanity at that time was not ready for that much power, let alone atom bombs etc. and today after all this time, we are even worse off and have well demonstrated the results that I feared. How little have we learned socially in over 50 years! At that time from what little that I exposed of what I wrote, the comment I remember is that it was redundant. My only feeling about that is that the person was superficially glossing over what I was trying to say, as I try to use precise words to cover my meaning. I could see that almost no one was interested from that era in what I had to say or communicate. Sad to say, this seems to be an all too common reaction to communications even today, even though OWS (Occupy Wall Street) activity shows that things may be bad enought to wake more people up.

Written in 1958 just a few months after Sputnik launch October 4, 1957

—–The fact that millions of humanity has sound reasons to question the wonderfulness of this dynamic world of variety, action, and change urgently demonstrates the extreme importance of our becoming completely aware of life’s essential components. Understanding and appreciating the miracle of our living and adapting ourselves accordingly is the only sound basis for human happiness. We have to lift our heads up out of the sand of ignorance to squarely face the realities of life. The search for truth, wisdom, and common sense requires diligently thorough and clear thinking. When people are intensely hoping and searching for peace before it is too late, the provocation of our minds must be more vital to our welfare than any other human activity today. Our dynamic world has wonderful possibilities if we will just focus our mental capacity efficiently and effectively upon our problems.

—–In trying to solve our problems, we tend to pick at and criticize the straws of headline events, and the particular laws and institutions that we happen to think are responsible for them, rather than the underlying simple but less obvious causes. A doctor cannot cure a disease by treating its symptoms, but must find and eliminate the causes. We are only putting the cart before the horse by forcefully and artificially changing our laws and institutions, thereby confounding our problems or creating new and greater ones.

—–Dictatorship and its associated evils of wholesale manslaughter in many countries, and the coercive governments illustrate the consequences. The underlying philosophy and attitudes of life come first whenever a change is desired, and that can only be effected by assembling and interrelating applicable proven facts and sharing them over direct person to person conversational intercommunicating systems that are freely accessible to all. No doubt enough applicable knowledge is already recognized and generally accepted so that most people would instantly see the “light” if 2 and 2 were put together and properly interrelated to make 4.

—–Once we realize and eliminate some simple causes, we may discover that other present conditions or events and tenaciously accepted as above suspicion were also affected and were just as much the symptoms of our troubles as the conditions that we were laying all the blame on. In our desperate prayers for peace, we may be inadvertently asking for the greatest change in history of our individual social attitudes and in ways that we have never dreamed of.

—–Intelligent beings should always maintain an alert and open receptivity to truth whenever and wherever its source if they are to be effective and efficient. The truth is no less or no more the truth when conveyed by the greatest liar or the most honest saint, or written in the most corrupt book or the most respectable book. Any concept should stand or fall on its own merits as measured by the everyday experience and awareness of each individual. Too often a concept becomes attached to a personality or reputation, and stands or falls, not according to its own merit or correlation to generally recognizable truth, but according to the personality or reputation of the advocator. The advocator’s identity, place of residence, or livelihood, or the reputation of a writing should never influence the acceptability of a particular concept.

—–Concepts opposing one’s own viewpoint should not be avoided or regarded too lightly. Honest and sincere disagreements, differences, or arguments are a potential source of additional knowledge and always merit careful consideration, comparisons. and analysis.

—–The most constructive reaction the advocator of any concept can get is such strong, well thought out, well worded comments, criticisms, or support that he will have equally strong basis for changing or extending some or all of his conclusions or for making his original stand more clear and vigorous. The power of human thinking can establish the understanding and appreciation of our universe, and our adaptability to it if all individuals have the means and attitudes to freely intercommunicate their thoughts, reasonings, and the experiences behind them.

—–In our age of man made satellites precaution is due before we take widely acceptable ideas too lightly and brand them idealistic, utopian, dreamy, impractical, or too good to be true. How can anything be literally too good to be true unless we’re sadistic, masochistic, or fatalistic? Do we ever consider anything too bad to be true? What does this say of our present attitudes? We must uncover the missing necessary links of understanding that would make these ideals work out in practice.

—–Remember that most of our recent power of action accomplishments, flying, space travel, nuclear power, guided missiles, were impractical dreams, if thought of at all, to most of us up to just a very, very short time ago. It is time the same idealism and utopian dreaming, if that is what it must be called, stimulate the advancement of social understanding and appreciation to a level at least equal to our fantastic power of action development as with Sputnik. Action power must be balanced with a social organization upholding the understanding and appreciation of our universe. Playing around with such great action power as nuclear bombs without the foresight of a survival compatible social organization subjects humanity to the real danger of irresponsible or accidental extermination.

—–So often we may lack necessary understanding and appreciation because we take for granted many of the natural wonders of our everyday environment and thereby miss their significance. How many have really stopped to consider what a rare and precious occurrence or miracle that each individual life represents? Without considering all the factors of heredity and environment involved by chance since the beginning of time leading to each conception and survival, just a few factors that are known within the last few generations would indicate the possibility of a particular individual existing at a particular time as practically zero. Just supposing one of your parents, grandparents, or some other ancestor had failed in any one of the many narrow escapes from death that befall us all before maturity and parentage, you would not be here. Consider how many are not born and present today because by chance their potential ancestor never were born, died, never met, or not at the right time etc..

—–Yet we continue to take ourselves and each other for granted. We take each passing moment and its associations, so fleeting and never to be again, too much for granted. We simply fail to probe and appreciate the depth of the beauty, harmony, and mystery of the natural wonders of our world. Would we only bear in mind at all times that only by understanding our world as much as possible as soon as possible can we get our fullest possible measure of life and happiness from each passing moment, for each moment of opportunity wasted is gone forever.

—–The activity of each of us on earth is limited to same relative briefness, and since we’re all in this world together, logic points to our urgent need to cooperate with one another to make the most of it by understanding and appreciating each other and everything else. Individually our existence is just an insignificant speck in this universe of energy-matter-space-time. This universe will have the same laws of reaction after we’re gone as before we existed. Our wants and happiness will have to cater to these laws through our own understanding, appreciation, and adaptation.

—–Truth is our indisputable master and holds the key to our happiness in this universe. Truth is the actual conditions or relations of our universe or environment. Our mind through its five senses can perceive impressions of the truth within its level of sensitivity, and this range of sensitivity is gradually being extended with mechanical inventions. At any one time our senses are limited in scope and do not perceive the total possible impressions of the characteristics, activities, and relationships of an object or entity of matter, but with the accumulations of written records the opportunity to broaden our perceptions and awareness becomes increasingly available. At any rate, the pattern of our thinking must be limited and correlated to the pattern of actuality through the persistent use of our senses for impressions, or we become mere parrots uttering meaningless noises.

—–The earnest and sincere communication of impressions of actuality is truthfulness. The understanding and appreciation of the miracle of our brief existence and the motivation to adapt ourselves can come only through truthfulness. The existence of any living body depends on its internal intercommunications of truth impressions. The child learns about its world through its nerve communication of truth impressions from its senses of touch, sight, hearing, taste, and smell, and uses its brain to store and organize experience impressions, and its muscles to activate its body. Truthful communications between the parts of its body are necessary before the child can learn to eat, walk, talk, or otherwise adjust to the world.

—–Truthfulness is the price of survival and efficiency of life. The slow and tedious trial and error evolution of living matter follows this principle. Failures are self-eliminating. Succeeders are self-perpetuating. All life instinctively searches for impressions of actuality in order to survive. Only as each life instinctively searches for impressions of environmental relationships can it develop responses that are necessary for its continued existence, including recognition of food, comfort, danger etc. The life with the most awareness has the greatest adaptability. Thus increase in intelligence is a natural built in step of evolution and must be associated with truthfulness for efficient utilization of this adaptability.

—–In the “higher” animals, the power of communicating impressions of truth has exceeded the individual boundary and reached outwards to other individuals through the use of vocal cords and ears. Except in man, this development is somewhat limited. With the advantage of a much greater mental capacity, man has established practically unlimited verbal symbols or wordage for outward communication of truth impressions. Furthermore, he has engaged his hands and eyes in establishing written symbols, which makes stable records possible. This interdependent development has elevated human knowledge over that of other animals-so called dumb animals. This is quite a feat or “feather in the hat” of the human species. Our language is our nervous system’s unique power to develop, organize, extend, and record itself. Without our language, even the most intelligent individual in each generation would have to repeatedly learn any simple fact of life through his own time and strength limited life experience. There could be no progressive accumulation of knowledge from one individual to another, or from one generation to another. These symbolic communications link individuals to individuals and generations to generations for the cooperative growth of human knowledge and wisdom. Now we must come to realize that truthfulness in our interdependent outward communications is also the price of humanity’s survival and efficiency of life.

—–Our languages have problems that we must be continually aware of. Our words are not the actual object, relationship, or activity. They can only represent our impressions of them. A word may not carry the same meaning or reference to different people. Until we eliminate the haphazard enforced isolation of individual intercommunications, the word’s reference to actuality must be carefully compared before any conflict is considered.

—–We must realize that our senses also cannot alone determine accurate measures of any characteristic but can only make crude and immediate comparisons. For accurate measure we require accessory equipment and a system of order to calculate with, such as a measuring stick or unit and a system of counting 1, 2, 2 etc.. A good illustration of this is: Take 3 pails of water, one at 40 degrees F., one 80 degrees, and the other 120 degrees. Place the left hand in the 40 water and right hand in the 120 water for a couple of minutes. Then place the left hand in the 80 water and water feels warm. Place the right hand in the 80 water and the water feels cold. Yet the thermometer will read the same in the 80 water regardless which of the other two pails of water it was placed in first.

—–Another problem of our words is that they must represent impressions of a completely dynamic world or universe. All entities of matter are dynamic and continue to change regardless how constantly we maintain a particular symbol for it. Therefore, in our minds we have to compromise and allow for the discrepancy between our static symbols and the dynamic environment those symbols are intended to represent. We have to avoid the fallacy of stereotyping the meaning of our words. The words “rock” or “dog” cannot represent any entity of matter unless infinitely indexed and dated. The index would have to vary with all the individuals that ever existed of the group that a word represents and the date would have to broken down to the smallest conceivable unit of time.

—–No unit of matter is ever in absolute isolation but changes with its changing relationships. Dog 1 is not the same as Dog 2. Dog 1 1950 is not the same as Dog 1 1951. A common or average dog is an abstract concept. Since we cannot spell out all the differences of our dynamic world without getting hopelessly bogged down in our words, we have to automatically maintain our awareness of our dynamic world and avoid stereotyping the meaning of our words. The development of the modern adult with his intercommunications and accumulations of knowledge has outgrown the handicaps of children and primitive people who understandably may not perceive minute differences or changes of matter.

—–As simple as it may seem, the bottom of most of our social, political, and economical problems today may possibly lie in the confusion from our use of the word “individualism” either to mean individual uniqueness or differentiation, or to mean individual independence or self-sufficiency, or to mean both. One gets the thoughtlessly overwhelming impression that the two meanings must go hand in hand, and if one is desirable the other must be likewise.

—–Nothing could be farther from the truth. Primitive independence is not favorable, let alone mandatory, for the individual’s freedom to fully develop uniqueness or differentiation. Actually, pressure for conformity starts from the too close association of independent competitive individuals. Closer association of individuals is an unavoidable trend as populations grow. With the independents belief in self-sufficiency, he forces himself into uniformity and naturally expects the same of others. After all, one independent has to do for himself as another has to do for himself. When their efforts, limited to all of us by time and strength, are thinly diffused as “jack of all trades-master of none” just to provide basic necessities of life, which are further complicated by technical developments and competition with one another, effective and efficient individual development of natural differentiating traits is a lost cause.

—–On the other hand, we can take a living body as an example of cellular development of interdependence, be the body a man or a mouse. The millions of cells of the body have specialized and organized their functions through cooperative interdependence. At some stage in cellular evolution, the nervous system originated and gradually developed, much the same as we have developed our language communication between individuals.

—In the body, more efficient communication enabled each cell to realize its dependence on and responsibility for the other cells, and to more effectively organize for the welfare of each cell and the body as a whole. As one cell specialized to more efficiently perform one function, other cells could specialize to more efficiently perform other necessary functions. Hence, dependable interdependence promotes differentiation and uniqueness. The fullest development of natural individual differences is at a premium in an association of responsible and cooperative cells.

—–Varied humanity favors the efficient adaptation of our species to the varied and changing conditions of our environment. Variation within a species is the best protective device in assuring the survival of a species. In our accumulation of knowledge, many different types of individuals, both mentally and physically, are required for the specialized observation of the greatest detail of the total of spontaneous or possible experimental or man made occurrences throughout future space and time, as well as determine through research what has happened in the past.

—–Variation in humanity is prerequisite to assimilating#the aggregation of experiences and to formulating truthful concepts from them. Variations are also needed to fulfill the necessary functions of our social and economic organization, which, as our knowledge and population increases, is replacing natural spontaneous functions of our environment with human manipulated and sustained activities.

—–The recognition of our over all interdependence is vitally important to our welfare. Some degree of interdependence has been inherent in our makeup ever since before the development of our species. To begin with, our sexual reproduction and our mammalian care of our young, unusually prolonged in our species, makes interdependence mandatory at least to the extent of 2 members of our species for at least a period of time. It should be clear that reliable interdependence favors individual uniqueness which in turn favors the efficient survival of our species. Now it is up to us to establish reliable interdependence among human individuals so that we can use our bodies’ developed mind potential to advance peace and goodwill beyond any current conception.

—–Our unique development of language has given us the opportunity to accumulate knowledge from individual to individual and from generation to generation. An individual or living group starting from scratch could not gain in his or their lifetime experience, because of time and strength limitations, anywhere near the amount of knowledge held by even our most primitive of people. They would have no chance to encompass ultimate universal understanding or wisdom. But a vast network of intercommunicating minds distributed throughout time and space might eventually assemble enough information.

—–Our interdependence is also indicated in the fact that each individual is entirely the product of heredity and the environment, neither of which can be controlled by him in any way. Many will say, “Oh, yes he can! He can if he just wants to”. Well, what makes one want to and another not want to? Regardless of your immediate answer, you can always trace the causes back to either heredity or environment or the interaction of both.

—–With heredity fixed at conception, the subsequent development of the individual is flexible only through his environment. As our population increases, we become a larger and larger part of each other’s environment. The development of the individual is therefore increasingly subject to his interaction with the rest of us. Undoubtedly, we are all our brothers’ keeper. Naturally the more of us there are the better job we can do for each other because of the natural variation of our heredity and environment. That is why it is very destructive to our society to pressure for conformity and to restrict the freedom of our intercommunications between any individual by making it a private cost instead of a public cost.

—–Curiously, we have more obvious control over others than we have over ourselves. Even the heredity available to the next generation of new individuals can be interdependently limited by the generations immediately before them.

—–With the independent’s false belief in his self-sufficiency and responsibility he closes his mind and is heedless to our very dynamic world with everyone and everything forever changing as they affect one another. With closed minds we stereotype ourselves and everything else, and quickly come into conflict with actuality. This stereotyping of oneself or others gives dictators their excuse for wholesale manslaughter and capitalists their excuse for competitive isolation of individuals and their fate.

—–The undeniable evidence of our utter helplessness as isolated independent individuals should encourage our desire#for dependable interdependence. It is our only chance to achieve the fullest development of our naturally differentiating traits. Dependable interdependence removes the individual as far as possible from the haphazard forces of chance, and gives humanity its greatest control over its own destiny. Interdependence within the whole of humanity acts with the binding effect of insurance and each individual has the security and stability that their variation and wide distribution gives humanity as a whole.

—–As our knowledge increases, more and better tools and methods for determining facts become available, which again in turn accelerates the accumulation of knowledge. This compounded interaction continues at an ever-accelerating tempo. The power of human action has paralleled this accelerating increase in knowledge, by our understanding and appreciation of life and its social aspects lags startling far behind.

—–Our independent ideology demands our personal shell of privacy, so that we subjectively maintain a “Hands Off” policy concerning the study of ourselves. We must learn to look at ourselves objectively, for our philosophy or attitudes of life and the rules and institutions derived therefrom must conform to natural laws of this universe or our civilization is doomed.

—–As we become a larger and larger part of each other’s environment, our effect on each other becomes greater and greater. It is practically impossible for one individual’s happiness to survive any length of time at the expense of other individuals’ happiness. The isolated independent does not have the communication to realize this situation. Such haphazard communication blocks our full understanding and appreciation of, and our adaptation to our universe.

—–Through intercommunication, individuals of the human races must pool the resources of their past, present, and future experiences to determine the facts of our universe and formulate a common basis for each other’s opportunity to happiness. These basic concepts will have to get universal#distribution and acceptance before any particular individual will have a sound opportunity for happiness through his own#understanding, appreciation, and adaptability.

—–Isolation of the individual promotes shortsighted and independent selfishness, a typical and limited selfishness. Competitive attitudes destroy our cooperative spirit. As independents specialize to utilize our accumulated knowledge, they lose sight of the whole, thus losing their perspective and their sense of vital values. Profit for profit’s sake and tools for tool’s sake become the goal even though thoughtless and meaningless. Independents are collectively victims of their own concepts and tools subject to their own mechanical inventions. Through ignorant competition, we enslave ourselves when with just our present pool of knowledge we could through cooperation emancipate ourselves-each and every one of us.

—–The philosophy of competition or currently considered good business boils down to each individual “getting as much as he can for as little as he can give. We consider the right to accumulate wealth under competitive conditions as a necessity to individual initiative. This infers to the independent or group of independents the right to monopolize the accumulations of nature to the best of his ability or luck to grab.

—–This amounts to parasitic opportunism. But where we#have become the predominate part of nature or each other’s environment, this parasitic opportunism would be more accurately called cannibalism-the ultra refined or not so refined preying upon the members of one’s own species. We are independently blind to the fact that the parasite limits his own possibilities and welfare to the same degree that he deteriorates the welfare of his host. Cancerous cells kill the body on which it depends and thus eventually destroy themselves. The more one contributes to the host, the more the host can contribute to one. Some nitrogen-fixing bacteria associate with some legume plants in exchange for a source of carbohydrates to their mutual benefit.

—–We can to our advantage change our interrelationship from parasitic opportunism or cannibalism to mutualism or what you might call mutual beneficialism. When we come to realize that no individual or group of individuals can attain his or their ultimate welfare at the expense of anyone else, no more than a brain or one of its cells, no matter how self important, can reach its ultimate welfare at the expense of any other organ or cell of the body, the Golden Rule will come to life.

—–The human species has come to a point in its development where truthfulness in individual outward communication is just as essential to our survival and efficiency of living as internal truthfulness has always been to individual survival. Deceitfulness destroys the#energy and mental capacity of humanity, producing resignation, apathy, cynicism, and aggressive and revengeful parasitism. The haphazard mixing of a little truth here and there, half truths, and personalities is a treacherously, bewilderingly, complicated mess and too dangerous in our age of atomic bombs. Such chaos jeopardizes human existence and happiness.

—–Modern deceitfulness is an amplified carryover from prehistoric man when all creatures were relatively independent and noncommunicative, and delicately balanced competitively in their weakness. Their limited strength insured that their effect upon their environment or each other would be of little consequence. Perhaps we are not fully aware of its deleterious effects upon our present interdependent existence because we have grown up with it. The existence and predominance of trickiness, pretences, deceitfulness, and other related refinements in our society represents an amazing contradiction to or misdirection of our supposedly present level of intelligence and knowledge.

—–Our primitive belief in individual independence and competition maintains our interaction of parasitic opportunism and deceitfulness. Mankind is almost totally infected with this manifold disease. It is man’s worst disease, a mental disease, that is extremely contagious and pernicious, and yet the most unnecessary. In the first place, the isolated independent is not fully aware of all his effects on others and his environment, and the affected are equally helpless in realizing the cause of their problems. We become resigned and blame it on human nature. We end up practicing deceitfulness and parasitic opportunism in defense against parasitic opportunism of others. This interaction restricts mankind to his lowest level of#survival.

—–Truthfulness of one opens himself up to the competitive parasitic opportunism of others. We are such chronic sufferers of this disease that we are practically unaware of its handicaps. We act as if it were a natural and necessary function in life. We have actually come to the contradictory stage where we look askance or reproachful at an individual exhibiting above average sincerity and honesty. You would think one with these qualities must be awfully naive, a simpleton, or just not all there. How does this speak for the intelligence or wisdom of humanity? As independents, we are hopelessly bogged down in a vicious rut.

—–Man has become the predominant part of his own environment. As we crowd together in our population growth the prevailing deceitfulness in our associations snowballs to disastrous levels. It spreads like wildfire, and eventually returns in the communications to the originator, more than canceling out any initial advantage. The infection of deceitfulness interrupts the chain of our ever-increasing knowledge. The continuity and effectiveness of#our vital symbolic communications are destroyed.

—–Individuals have to learn over and over what others have already learned. Such a large portion of our efforts is wasted in checking and sorting out the truths from the untruths. Only a small portion of our energy can go for original search of facts that are urgently needed to tune our lives in on the actual conditions of this world for maximum happiness. Humankind cannot survive the confusions of overwhelming deceitfulness.

—–In our daily independent struggle to meet competition to survive or get ahead, we have taken the temporarily easier way out and let this business of deceitfulness get the upper hand. The “smart operator” who uses a mixture of truths and deceits to suit his own independently selfish purposes mostly for his individual or group accumulation of wealth seems to command the respect of a too large portion of humanity. Individuals and groups, business or otherwise, attempt to grab the most knowledge and material, and share or transfer the least, even to mislead with deceit to gain economic advantage over another. Our ideal in practice is to get the most for the least.

—–Profit becomes the master and more important than the welfare of humanity, which we should realize that we are all a part of. It is the ignorance of isolated independents. Each and every individual is such an inextricable part of the universe, no one can escape the inevitable effects of his actions on humanity and the universe. The welfare of humanity is the welfare of the individual. Any seeming gain to an individual or group from deceitfulness is only temporary and always at the expense of past and future development. Deceitfulness is always a step backwards from wherever you are.

—–The individual desire for the accumulation of wealth is a primitive carryover from prehistoric man who had so little power over his environment and so little communication and interdependence with each other. “Feathering of his nest” was an independent and comparatively helpless individual’s bulwark against an overwhelming environment, overwhelming because he so little understood its functioning. His fortune was in the hands of factors that he little understood and thus could not control. The boundless implications of our present power lead the accumulation of material resources or wealth up a blind alley.

It is man’s innate inquisitive creativeness, his desire to fully develop his unique capabilities, and his search for knowledge and understanding that drives individual initiative and not the competitive over satisfaction of physical or bodily needs or desires. It is this thwarted creativeness that leads so many to the blind accumulation of individual wealth only to find that it has neither meaning nor satisfaction. He is the victim of our belief in individual independence, and the resultant diseased associations and communications. Deceitfulness forcefully isolates or confuses his efforts to wisdom by limiting his resources to his own small living experience or to the confusion of a diseased communication. He is today’s ideal of success and if he were honest with himself he could tell you only too well what a dead and lonely end it truly is as far as personal happiness is concerned.

—–Deceitfulness and parasitic opportunism are retrogressive, their final interacting boomeranging effects far outweighing any initial or hoped for advantages. The manager of a stockholder corporation is not serving his stockholders even if they think so, when any increase in profits are such that the increase in dividend is more than offset by what he has taken away from his product and which invariably eventually wastefully increases the cost of living of his stockholders. Neither does an individual serve his own best interests if his profits and products prove to be a disservice or burden to mankind and thereby must inevitably increase his own cost of living much beyond his original gain.

—–Business for business’s sake, activity for activity’ sake, tools for tools’ sake, and profit for profit’s sake are all meaningless concepts to humanity’s survival. Unless we consider at all times our long term welfare which is the welfare of humanity as a whole, we become victims of our own ignorance.

—–Few people today would care to go back and exist 10, 50, 100, 1000, or etc years ago. Yet, it may have been possible for individuals of those days to have lived the life of today or the future if individual independence, parasitic opportunism, and deceitfulness had not held up human progress before and during that period. By the same token, individuals of today might be living the life of 50, 100, 1000, etc. years in the future, depending on when irresponsible independence is dropped and replaced by dependable interdependence, and the number and variations of humanity or living contributors the earth or universe can develop and support at one time.

—–Each passing day of less than maximum output enforced upon any individual delays the status of our progress. Every individual should have maximum opportunity to develop his natural abilities to maximum effectiveness for his maximum contribution to our daily society.

—–Consider the growing child and picture the effects on his fresh searching mind as it daily experiences deceitfulness, pretence, subterfuge, intrigue, trickiness, the injustice of parasitic opportunism, and the amiable, enjoyable, jestingly, cynical, apathetical acceptances of these in our daily way of life. Mix this with a little bit of truth here and there, half-truths, and personalities, and what can you expect? What would happen to juvenile delinquency if truth were ever evident on every hand and side? Whose enthusiasm or inspiration hasn’t been chilled at one time or another? All of us really know the price of deceitfulness or an inkling of it, if we would but just think about it. One eventually becomes cynical, resigned, lethargic, hopeless, or futile in outlook or just plain blind.

—–You can be witness to most criminals and mentally hospitalized. Can you truly believe a little lie, even a white one, here and there, is harmless? Like any other disease, some individuals may withstand small degrees of infection with little or no visible symptoms but sooner or later more susceptible individuals will catch the infection. Then the disease selectively strengthens to more infective forms until finally even the hardiest will succumb.

—–To eliminate a communicable disease, the easiest way may be to develop a vaccine or antidote against it. Understanding fully the need for dependable interdependence and realizing fully how only truth can improve our human condition may provide the vital antidote.

—–Humanity is at the brink of disaster today because truth has unraveled so disproportionately faster in fields that extend our power of action, now almost unlimited, than in fields that develop the understanding and appreciation of others, our universe, and ourselves. Tradition, which haphazardly preserved the propagation of humanity through their period of primitive lack of knowledge and action power, may today be our undoing.

—–Tradition is hindering the search of truth in our social functions. A chick is not so foolish as to stick loyally by its shell after hatching. We have a bigger world to explore and understand too. We need to feel just as much if not more loyalty and reverence for the future as for the past. The past represents our progress from total ignorance to more and more knowledge but far less knowledge than the future holds.

—–The incompatibility of our traditions to our individual living experiences builds internal and external tensions, confusion, and conflict. Traditions are the preconceived ideas of life handed down to us from our ancestral background, by our parents and community. Our adjustment to life would be naturally built in by tradition if our ancestors and their communities demonstrated thoughtfull free access to all available information.

—–But even with an unusually large brain capacity, man had to start from scratch. Known facts would be scarce, and simple imagination plentiful. Erroneous concepts were bound to be widespread. What our early ancestors thought or did could hardly affect them because they had little power to modify their environment. Thus the survival of tradition does not necessarily prove its validity. Traditions have#not been thoroughly tested by time as so many would like to think, even though it may make a good starting point.

—–Needless to say, an erroneous conception today could and is having disastrous consequences. It is extremely distressing to observe civilizations’ blind allegiance to their traditions and the fighting of wars over them. Oh if we would only fully understand the implications of the six blind men and the elephant. Then we would eagerly learn from each other instead of self righteously fighting each#other.

—–We need to realize that traditions are handed down to each individual of each generation in childhood before enough first hand experience is available for using adequate judgment. By the time we become old enough to have reasonable discrimination, our traditions have become an imperceptible part of us. Whenever a belief which is engrained from our tradition, known or unknown in our awareness, is questioned our whole integrity feels assaulted, and we are willing to sacrifice ourselves for that one part we are least responsible for and most likely subject to error. This is our slavery to tradition.

—–Our deep founded affection for our parents whom we know originated our existence by conceiving and rearing us is carried over to the traditions that they handed down to us. Our parents were the predominate environment of our growing up period. We feel we must loyally protect our parental concepts from opposing outside ideas. Furthermore, our interpretation of impressions of reality perceived by our own five senses is colored by these same traditions. Obviously, discarding our beliefs derived of tradition can really upset the apple cart. Such an upheaval requires well-substantiated recognition of the truth and the understanding of the dangers of traditions. Powerful mankind must be the discoverer and disseminator of truth if only for his own well being and not the blind chick clinging loyally to his egg shell of tradition.

—–The original development of intelligent life naturally began with the organisms sensing the minute-to-minute conditions of their environment and making the necessary adjustments within the range of their inherited capabilities. Natural selection through the survival of the fittest eventually established many types of life so that any particular environment would be utilized if at all possible.

—–Eventually intelligence must have developed to a point where the environment no longer was taken for granted. Forms of life must have originated with the ability to change the environment to suit their limitations and needs. Most birds do not look for a nest that has already been formed by chance but deliberately take fortune into their own bills and make a nest to suit themselves. Until the advent of man and his snowballing accumulation of knowledge, these changes little affected the environment.

—–The production of a change in the environment and the ability to intentionally maintain such changes are an obvious sign of higher intelligence. In a species with the reasoning powers of man but with little accumulation of experience, an individual that accomplished a change and could maintain it at will would be highly admired and respected. Self consciously, he and followers would form a clique noted for their intelligence, and that change would be their trademark. With the change a trademark of superior intelligence, questioning the value of the change might never occur. At a low level of knowledge, the long range ramifications of a change would be beyond comprehension. If the change happened to be self destructive, then the followers disappeared with it.

—–Making changes or turning things inside out or upside down does serve an important function. Such experiments give man the opportunity to study the function of matter in changed relationships and adds to our accumulation of knowledge.

—–On the other hand, we have to beware that we do not upset the balance of nature to which as survivors of selective evolution we are vitally adapted. Many of our health problems may be due to such disturbance. Once we have learned the basic laws of the universe, we may see that some of our changes from the ways of nature are superficial if not outright detrimental. After all nature has felt her way along cautiously for millions of years and though trial and error established whatever she happened to find that would work together. Eventually, our knowledge may be used to speed up the progress but not necessarily to change the direction of progress.

——In the manipulation of our soils and food we may in many ways be treading on very shaky grounds, especially considering how crudely our experiments are set up and the way we jump at conclusions from superficial results. By upsetting our soils and our food, we shake the very foundation of our existence. Until we know in intricate detail what we are doing, nature is our very best guide.

—–Too many of us look upon the soil as simply pulverized rock. Soil does not exist until some form of life has had its remains distributed within and over the pulverized rock. This organic debris provides energy for the many activities that must take place within a soil. The first form of life subsisting on land would have to have the power of photosynthesis, and an organization to produce adequate organic compounds to live from whatever mineral that happened to be in solution or that it could bring into solution from the pure rock material. As these first forms#died, the nutrients of the debris must have laid the stage#for the evolution or entrance of life that could utilize it. As the debris decayed from such utilization, other successions of life must have entered to utilize the effects upon the rock etc.

—–Each succession of life would be dependent upon some additional reorganization of the material that the previous succession accomplished. The dependence on all the previous successions of lives must have given the new life an opportunity to accomplish one or more additional functions. Through the interaction of selective survival, an intricate balance would be set up within the soil, its plant cover, and the animal life roving over it, and all cooperatively depending on each other.

—–The interrelations between the higher plants and animals are readily visible to us, but the microscopic life is too little understood and much more difficult to learn about. Out of sight out of mind. For this reason, we are apt to give them too little consideration. As one of the last species to evolve, we could be and most likely are much more dependent on particular previous established orders and balance than we realize.

—–We have been ruthless, careless, and wasteful in the manipulation of our soils and foods and may be paying the penalty in new diseases and lowered level of health. Our agricultural experiments are set up to determine the recommendable practices for the maximum production of pounds of this and that food per acre, but we do not as yet have or use the means to determine if this is the maximum pounds of health. Until we have or use the means to gain more intricate and worthwhile information, we had better follow closely the ways of nature.

—–In undisturbed nature, you will find a continuous return of humus to the soil which provides the energy for the millions of bacterial, chemical, physical, and other activities that must go on in the soil to make available the many nutrients required by our higher plants and animals, including us. However, our agriculture hardly takes humus into consideration but depends on heavy doses of chemicals applied to the soil. These chemicals have been artificially treated to make available 3 or 4 of the many elements essential to the healthful life of higher plants, which in turn provide the essential nutrients of higher animals and us.

—–How can it be wise to shut down the activities in the soil, which normally release all the required nutrients from the rock, and then substitute with a fertilizer that is purified to only provide part of the nutrients required. No wonder our soils have lost their native productivity. How much of the low level of resistance and the rapid spread of disease of plant and animals is due to malnutrition directly or indirectly? After all, we do not know one nth of the intricate processes required within a plant or animal and go around making changes in the environment as if we know it all. When the top soil is removed from a piece of ground, life starts coming back into it from a much lower level of evolution, and proceeds through the succession of living forms until the highest balance is again attained. Without the topsoil and its humus, higher life apparently cannot exist in health if at all.

—–We have unnecessarily replaced the infinite variety of plants and animals with just a few that we have incidentally favored for their chance development at the time of their discovery as a convenient form of food and ease of culture. We have even limited the variation within#those few species that we have chosen. Instead of just culling out members of a species that exhibited undesirable traits in the light of our interests, we have instituted varieties selected for 100% uniformity or as much as nature would allow it. At the same time you get uniform disease resistance or lack of it distributed in one continuous line of infective exposure. This gives any disease a straight line of opportunity to evolve strains adapted to the resistant varieties and a perfect avenue to spread thereafter.

—–It is possible and even easier to breed a strain of a species homozygous for just the traits required for desirable types of production and leave genes of the other traits in an extremely varying condition. This would give the strain or species its maximum adaptability and resistance to diseases at the same time as it symbiotically produces usefully for us. A wheat field should contain highly variegated plants bred to produce a uniformly desirable grains only to the extent of eliminating undesirable grains, with perhaps a uniform maturity time and height for ease of harvesting etc. Cows could be bred for uniform quality and quantity of milk and not for uniform color or appearance of their bodies etc.

—–In our experience that uniformity is desirable in some ways, we have stereotyped uniformity into a clique that believes uniformity in all way is desirable and intelligent. This is contrary to our dynamic world and pushing the idea too far may be our undoing. For example, we have hundreds and hundreds of continuous acres of McIntosh apple trees, which is a perfect evolution ground for a strain of disease to adapt to such widespread uniformity.

—–Variety is the spice of life. In our fad for uniformity, we are dulling our own interest in things. When I buy a sack of apples, I would much rather get a variety of toothsome apples, each apple tasting good but a little different from the others. There are hundreds of species of wild edible plants that we have not given the attention they deserve to bring into cultivation. Consumption of a wide variety of plant and animal life growing from a wide variety of highly organic soil would insure maximum healthful nutrition.

—–After our food is grown properly, the freshness of food is a problem. Most animal life, especially in a high state of activity, consumes their food on the spot. No doubt this was also man’s natural practice long after the origination of his species. The evolution of his physical adaptation was naturally based on this practice. Food begins to deteriorate after harvest and loses many of the vitamins and other nutrient compounds that the maximum health of man depends on. No doubt, if man would return to a practice of eating his food right in the gardens and fields, his general tone of health would improve.

The ability to harvest, process, and store food has established a clique with the change a trademark of intelligent differentiation. We have processed our foods to satisfy superficial culture based emotions rather than our nutritional needs. We have a long established fad to process our food to a white and fluffy condition to conform to our artificial ideas of purity and airy angels.

Some time in our recent past someone discovered the use of fire which is an advantageous change in providing warmth in cold situations. But then someone also learned the flavor change of cooked food. This required quite an art to avoid spoiling the food by burning it. Another clique took this opportunity to develop the art of cooking with its distinct flavor for their trademark of superior intelligence.

Now we have grown up with the idea that man could not survive or be in good health without cooking his food. If this were true, man could not have survived to the time he started cooking. In fact the heredity of his physical constitution must have developed when no cooked food was available so that he must be best adapted to raw food. Our knowledge of nutrition has begun to point out the damage that heat of cooking does to the vitamins and other nutritional compounds necessary for our health.

We are now adding to the burden of our natural soils, foods, and health, the wholesale spreading of chemical pesticides. There is no effective protection against the chance concentration into one’s diet. These artificial poisons have not been tested through the long stages of evolution and the turn over of our generations are not rapid enough to evolve strains of humanity with resistance to them.

We do not realize the effect they have upon the balance of nature to which we are so well adapted. We do not have the means to trace their intricate effects upon our health and us on a long-term basis. All life is so related in function that a poison is dangerous. Spreading pesticides around is the same as if cows, sheep, pigs, poultry, etc. that we depend upon and tigers, wolves, rats, poison snakes, etc. that endanger us or our subsistence were all invisible to us and we put out undiscriminating poison to get rid of the pests, as well as us and our animal friends. Indiscriminate poisoning is a boomerang practice because of the close relationship of all life. We can better get out our microscopes to find or breed up a strain of animal, such as invisible dogs, friendly and protective of us and hostile to our invisible enemies.

To break the evil cycle of individual independence, parasitic opportunism, and deceitfulness, it may be possible if enough individuals would see the utter uselessness and detriment of this disease, to form an interacting core to eliminate false communications among themselves. With the core reinforcing and protecting each other through thorough and extensive truthful communication, others can be picked up into their orbit as others desire and can demonstrate their belief in honest and truthful communications. No doubt an instinct for detecting deceitfulness will develop once we are free of its overall contaminating influence.

With knowledge and understanding follows the further desire for harmonious relations with fellow humanity and the universe. This is s further spur to individual initiative. With freedom of experience and search for knowledge in man’s youth, man’s innate inquisitive creativeness and desire for understanding will lead him to sexual maturity ready and willing to settle down to fill any vacuum in the functioning of our social organization to promote harmonious relationships, according to his individually inherited capacities.

With the complete freedom of intercommunications, these capacities will emerge and develop their associated skills early in life. A sexually mature person will have the mental depth or awareness greater than today’s wisest old people but the energy and spirit of a live wire tingling for many years of expression. Waste, hate, and fear will be historical words, reminiscent of our primitive eras. Our love and understanding will bring the much prayed for harmony and goodwill on earth.